You have arrived at the residence of a 66-year-old female patient who is in cardiac arrest. In the living room, you find Emergency Medical Responders performing CPR on the patient. They quickly report that they found the patient in cardiac arrest and have been doing CPR for 5 minutes. Which of these statements should you make at this time?

You have been called for an elderly male patient who suddenly collapsed. On scene, you find an 82-year-old man lying on the garage floor. Assessment reveals him to be unresponsive and not breathing. What should you do immediately?

Prior to the administration of oral glucose, a patient’s blood glucose level was 49 mg/dL. After administering the oral glucose, the patient is alert and oriented. Which repeat blood glucose levels would the EMT expect with this clinical presentation?

While death penalty cases clearly show that Black defendants are more likely to receive death sentences, victim race, specifically for white victims, is the most indicative factor for whether or not someone receives a death sentence. 

In 3 sentences, what is Fick’s law of diffusion and what are the components that decide rate of gas diffusion? Using the image here, describe the relationship between pressure and rate of oxygen disassociation from hemoglobin. Basically, what occurs from rest to exercise and what does this shift in pressure do to the percent of oxygen bound to hemoglobin? Where is this oxygen that was bound to hemoglobin going? o2dissasociation.png

In two sentences describe the adaptations in ventilation in response to exercise. That is, the adaptations in rate of ventilation during exercise. Not just that we breathe harder during exercise.

Pressure and volume are inversely related and gases flow from high pressure to low pressure. Therefore, what must occur in order to breathe in atmospheric gases?

Veins carry blood __________ the heart resisting gravity via ____________?

In detail, describe sliding filament theory. Begin with the message from a motor neuron and end with myosin binding to actin performing the power stroke thus shortening a sarcomere. Notice the point value. Although you don’t have to, you can describe this process in 7 steps.

The outermost layer of connective tissue that surrounds the entire muscle is known as the?